Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-05-21

on either side Of an octegonsl hall, anC
in the rear gives still more floor space By
wings extending in either direction. Ii
front, above the doorway, is the Roman
welcome, "Salve," and inside an arrange
ment of halls and rooms very success
fully modernized from the strict Pompei
ian model. The floors are Roman mosaic
the ceilings of wood, the rear hallway
square and pillared like the court it imi
tates, and the whole arrangement cool
wide and airy TO an extent which is sp-
preciated in this summer climate. Mr.
Cole apparently enjoys his wealth, but /;
forced to be an extremely hard and steady
worker by the great number of his enter
prises.
WEALTHY SENATOR BROWN.
Old Joe Brown, as they call him here
or Senator Brown, as they call him il
Washington, IS not by any means to be
neglected in considering wealthy railroad
men OF the south. Indeed, great manv
people will say he ought to be put first
His interests are wonderful, even to PEG.
pie who are used to hearing about Wal
street kings, and the estimates of his
money run up away up towards SI5,000,-
900. Nobody really knows how rich he
is. The nearest approach ever made to
the discovery was when an Atlanta re-
porter, with enterprise far beyond his
discretion, undertook to find out by ask
ing the old gentleman himself. "Sena-
tor" said he, when he had got firmly
seated in the Senator's office one even
ing, "people say you are very wealthy,
and in writing about you would like TO
say whether you are worth S1,000,O00 or
| $4,000 900.
"My son." said the old man reflect
lively, with a mixture of sympathy and
| benevolence IN his tone, "a million dol
lars is mighty big lot of money" and
that was the valuable information the
young man carried away with him.
To be seen at his best, the Senator
| ought to be pictured on one of the roads
Dear his plantation, with one foot on the
hub of a one-oX cart and his silk hat far
enough on the back of his head to let the
farmers family in the front seat see the
full eXpanse of his brow. His black coat
tails then dangle down unaffectedly and
his long white beard furnishes employ
ment for the hand that is not occupied in
holding on to the cart. He talks that
way about the crops and the Baptist
meetings to great many of the farmers
he meets, and seems to like the talking
just as well as the farmers do. They are
all for him for anything, and Will see that
he goes back to the Senate as long as he
wishes TO.
Brown is reviled good deal as hypo-
critic because of his smooth, crafty, in
sinuating way of talking, always "wssh-
ing his hands with invisible soap and wa
ter" as Senator Ingalls, said, but in all
respects ne is the most remarkable man
IN the south. He has been successful in
everything. He went into the railway
business and became president of the best
line, and, in fact, almost all the lines in
his state. He tried politics, was govern
or, and is g United States Senator with
life lease. As jurist his abilities were
unquestioned; as q manufacturer herpat-
his mills at the head of the establish
mentS IN his section; as q coal operator
he is probably the largest individual
owner of paying mines III the southern
regions. His business facilities, esti-
mated IN dollars and cents, are as good
as those of any man who started with
him and suffered the reverses of the war,
ana his religion faculties, estimated
by his influence, extend further, probably,
than those of any other man in the
Baptist church of the south. He is
slow, sanCtimonious and Pecksnifan in
MS movements, but his mind is as versa
tile as his appearance is bad. To mention
his business enterprises would be to
give list Of nearly all the paying con-
Germs in Georgia and Southeast Tennes-
see. He is head of the Western and At
lantic Railroad, the line from Chat
tanooga to Atlanta the owner of line
which transports his own coal; the
powerful stakeholder in the Dade Coal
Company; the president of the Rising
Fawn Furnace Company with it's great
tracts OF ore, president of the Chat
tanooga Iron Company, and in short, in
so many other enterprises that his name
crops up in every mention of iron, coal
or railroad interest in the three states.
BE is apparently not thoroughly sppre-
Ciated at Washington among the noisier
takers of the Senate, but travelling
through this country one is forced to
know something of his immense power.
JOHN INNIAN AND OTHERS.
Still weather, according to report, than
Brown or Megee, though no longer
claiming the south as his residence, is
John Inman of New York, who was born,
brought up and made his money in
Georgia and then moved to New York to
attend to railroad interests. He comes
south two or three times year yet, but
controls southern railroads generally
from his New York office. He made his
first money in cotton brokerage In At
lsnta after the war, and then went to
railroad management He is now 8 direc-
tor in the Louisville and Nashville, Nash
vile, Chattanooga and st. Louis, Rich
mond and Danville, Georgia Pacific, East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia, Norfolk
and Western, and he is interested practi-
Cally in every other southern line. His
fortune is estimated pretty well up to
$4,000, 90, and people here believe that
he has more money than any man who
ever made his start in the south.
Other southern railroad men, known
from the Ohio to the Gulf, are Milton II.
Smith, first vice president of the Louis
vile and Nashville, and NJ. II. Stahlmsn,
third vice president of the same road. |
Neither of them is rich, however, and |
their reputation rests entirely on their
sbilit'es as railroad managers.
n MARTIN.
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